Inside Listening to the universe • The uses of LSD • What the ancient Greeks did for us

New Humanist A quarterly journal of ideas, science and culture from the Rationalist Association

Summer 2016 Published since 1885

Who wants to live forever?

Cal Flyn investigates cryonics and the quest for eternal life

RATIONALIST association

Fiona Sampson Why poems are good for the rational mind

Marc Bennetts How Russia fell back in love with Stalin

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Vol 131 No 2 £4.95 €6 US$7

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